Biography

Following his studies at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Jussi Myllys started his international career in 2005, singing Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni in Turku and at the Komische Oper Berlin. From 2006-2009, he was an ensemble member at Opera Frankfurt performing roles such as Vašek/The Bartered Bride, Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Pedrillo/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Jaquino/Fidelio, Belfiore/La finta Giardiniera, and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni.

In 2009 he joined the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he took on roles including Tamino/Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Sir Richard Fenton/Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Sänger/Der Rosenkavalier, Matteo/Arabella and Rinuccio/Gianni Schicchi, as well as Giovanni in the world premiere of Anno Schreier‘s Schade, dass sie eine Hure war.

Furthermore, Jussi Myllys is sought after as a concert artist, his repertoire including works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Concert engagements resulted in collaborations with the Gürzenich Orchestra under Markus Stenz and the Bachakademie Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling (Rihm‘s Deus Passus), a Japan tour with the RIAS Kammerchor, and concerts in Prague, Riga (under Peter Schreier), Geneva (Haydn‘s Missa Cellensis), and Kuopio (Haydn‘s The Creation), a tour through the Netherlands with the Nederlands Kamerkoor and Mozart’s Requiem, as well as a concertante performance of Widmann’s Babylon/Tammu at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, also under the baton of Markus Stenz.

Upcoming engagements at Deutsche Oper am Rhein include Froh/Das Rheingold under the baton of Axel Kober, Alfred/Die Fledermaus and Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni. In addition to the projects at his parent house, he will sing Tamino/Die Zauberflöte under Ainārs Rubiķis at Komische Oper Berlin, Lensky/Eugene Onegin and Shepherd in Stravinsky‘s Oedipus Rex under Eivind Gullberg Jensen at Finnish National Opera Helsinki.